Believe me Mrs Mopp if I was paying you to clean for me your work would be inspected and you would be both responsible and accountable for that cleaning being done to what I considered to be the required standard - you being paid would depend upon it.

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If a private individual engages a cleaner, they of course have every right to inspect the work afterwards and to ensure it meets their standards. In all the little jobs like this I've had, I'm sure the person employing me had a look, and they were obviously satisfied as I never had any complaints, in fact the friends of the clients wanted me to 'do' for them as well. But there was nothing 'official' about it, and no forms to fill in etc. or any pressure, except to get the job done in the time allotted.



It is interesting to see people's differing attitudes. We don't have a cleaner, but for a few years we have handed over all the ironing to a local two-person business. (We can have long and interesting debates about the politics another time).

Anyway, on one occasion a few months into the arrangement my daughter answered the door to find them standing very nervously because they had started to iron a non-iron shirt and the collar was damaged. Please could they replace it?

My daughters response:   She knew me far better than they did so
a) I would never notice
b) if I did notice, I wouldn't care
c) It was my fault for sending a non-iron shirt in the first place and if needs be she would make that quite plain to me.
d) so no, they should not dream of replacing it.

And I agree with her. As far as I am concerned, we are in a mutually agreeable arrangement and they are not servants. They have every right to be treated with respect.